Books: Also Current: Nov. 20, 1964

The house at 311 East 100th Street in Harlem enjoys a reputation for
being the grubbiest slum building on the grubbiest slum street in the
U.S. It has been the scene of countless fires, fights, arrests,
knifings, suicides, and a few deaths that defy all explanation. Woody
Klein, reporter for the New York World-Telegram and Sun, relates the
depressing history of this house, all the more depressing because
politicians, social workers, and no end of other do-gooders have been
promising to clean it up for decades, and yet nothing has actually...